{"id":1585,"date":"2016-05-06T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2016-05-06T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T02:58:12","slug":"brain-structure-vs-brain-thoughts-vs-hash-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/05\/06\/brain-structure-vs-brain-thoughts-vs-hash-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Structure vs. Brain Thoughts vs. Hash Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was doing a knowledge transfer session[1] last week, and I was struck by the way that my brain seemed to be answering the questions.  It felt almost like there was a structure inside that was taking the input from the questions, and outputting the answers in a different part of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>It felt different from <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/02\/10\/punning-like-a-broken-record-player\/\" target=\"_blank\">the hash functions that I mentioned before<\/a>.  Those felt like they were hash functions[2] implemented in software, the structure above felt more like inflexible hardware, like you put a problem in, it or something upstream abstracts the problem to a useable form, it spits the answer out automatically and gives you that answer before you know it.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware can be fun sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>But this was the first time that I really felt that thoughts and reactions I was having were completely the result of brain hardware rather than software.  It was a most interesting feeling.<\/p>\n<p>It felt more like channels or a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pachinko\" target=\"_blank\">Pachinko<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peggle\" target=\"_blank\">Peggle<\/a> game.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting the contrast here.  When you&#8217;re trying to get something creative out of your brain, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2011\/06\/03\/post-alpha\/\" target=\"_blank\">like fish jumping out of water, and you&#8217;re trying to relax to allow yourself to see them and express them<\/a>.  When you&#8217;re answering a question, you&#8217;re taking the words in, and passing them through a filter and hash function.  When you&#8217;re solving a problem, sometimes it&#8217;s all processed through some kind of a hardware structure.<\/p>\n<p>Some might use the analogy of sound waves traveling through a Crystalline Entity, but I like the analogy of a collagen structure with the cells removed that concepts can travel through to and from specific places, so you could have a graph in many directions or dimensions, perhaps simultaneously[3]<\/p>\n<p>Your brain structure can be dictating your answers to questions, perhaps not always your thoughts.  Fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>[1]PM me if you want to know more!<\/p>\n<p>[2]They felt like hash functions both because they were in software, but more importantly because they each worked in one direction only, or with a specific &#8216;twig&#8217; not the same as others'[4].<\/p>\n<p>[3]Do these thoughts ever collide?<\/p>\n<p>[4](Other people or other <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/twig#Verb_2\" target=\"_blank\">twigs<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was doing a knowledge transfer session[1] last week, and I was struck by the way that my brain seemed to be answering the questions. It felt almost like there was a structure inside that was taking the input from the questions, and outputting the answers in a different part of the brain. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/05\/06\/brain-structure-vs-brain-thoughts-vs-hash-functions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain Structure vs. Brain Thoughts vs. Hash Functions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,25,13,4,20,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}